Sometimes, life feels boring, routine and usual.

So, I went to a canvas workshop and this is where my heart found its way out. Human emotions come in the form of tears but this time, mine came through bright colours.

Maybe colours have a way of saying the things we cannot put into words. Maybe, sometimes, bright colours can gently overshadow the unsaid things we carry within.

Bright colors

Menaka Sangwan

Should we buy books even if we can’t read it immediately..?

Let’s assume you are at book store and saw a book you have heard a lot about. But you already have some books in your way to cross before coming to the recent one. Should you buy or just wait till you wrap up earlier in stack.?

John waters in Role models said “Nothing is more impotent than an unread library”.

But Austin Kleon in “Steal like an Artist” mention that Nothing is more important than an unread library. (back story: I’m scanning through the book and this quote hit me and thought of writing this.)

So, it basically depends upon an individual as they have to choose what suits them. Sometimes we can get bored of a book and need some fresh start so can put our hand on the next book, if there is an option.

For me, I love to be surrounded by books. And there is phase in life where I want to switch between books or simultaneously read two books one before sleep and one during travelling.

Stack in queue📚

Menaka Sangwan

Disclaimer: Someone asked why I don't write much on the site anymore, well.. hey, here’s your response.

I write when my heart is full of emotions

i write when i don’t feel good

i write when my mind freezes

i write when everything feels like its going in the wrong direction

i write when i have no one to express myself to

i write when something feels off

i write when i see the unspoken emotions of others

i write when my mind and brain are not in sync

i write when i have nothing to work on

i write when i feel bored

i write when i want something, but I can’t quite see what it is

i write when all things are trapped inside my mind and heart

i write when i miss myself

i write when there is scarcity

i write when i have no words to write, only feelings to think about

i write when i observe but pretend i haven’t

i write when something is missing

i write when i feel lonely

i write when words seem useless to me

i write when i feel nervous

i write when my mind doesn’t know what to write about

i write when the world makes no sense to me

i write when someone overlooks me

i write to make myself heard, seen, understood, clear my mind and feel better.

Nowadays i don’t write much because the spaces that once made me write are filled

and that’s a good thing, i think.

One filled the gap..

Menaka Sangwan

  1. Celebration with friends.
  2. Practicing yoga.
  3. Being before time.
  4. When visited alone to passport office.
  5. Purchased pizza for myself first time ever, Having pizza with cold coffee after successful submitted application.
  6. Applying nail paint art, it’s an art 6 Feb.
  7. Completed the alchemist book.
  8. Buying MacBook.
  9. Knowing your power i.e. smart.
  10. Reading the books….
  11. Finally, finally, finally, started gym (procrastination, b-bye!!)
  12. Living in my cute own world.
  13. Getting gifts for no reason.
  14. Buying 4 wheeler, from last 2 years, I have it in my TO-DO list.
  15. Spending time leisurely with my favorite people.
  16. December comes with lot of great surprises and meeting MY new favorite person.
  17. Officially, can visit places, because I have got passport (yayyyy!!!).
  18. Sorry to bother, but one more is officially, got flowers and chocolate, OMG..
  19. Lot of impulsive buying, but they are of great worth🔥.
  20. DLF.
  21. Take away, introduced with culture of take aways.
  22. Collecting receipts, wrappers, petals.
  23. Continuously, for over a week, not sleeping till 5AM (M! seriously it’s you? Can’t believe, who can’t live without 9 hr sleep).
  24. Eating in four wheeler.
  25. Visited conference and received techie things.
  26. Watching movies in theatre (what!!).
  27. Holding hands and loving MY favorite people.
  28. Seeing retirement phase, chaos and excitement simultaneously.
  29. Spending time with family and having the breakfast, lunch and dinner together including snacks.
  30. Giving and receiving love.
  31. Being so busy with stuff that you don’t have time to process anything (feels good for short duration).
  32. INCIDENT happens.
  33. AirPods.
  34. Able to talk while using AirPods (achievement for me..).
  35. Reading on kindle while light is off.
  36. Scrabbling in my diary and jotting down the messed thoughts.
  37. Pasting the restaurant bills in diary.
  38. Being with self.
  39. Clean surroundings to clear mind.
  40. Purchased some girlie stuff.
  41. Having dosa with OG!!
  42. Sundar Nursery.
  43. I think and purchase long long before actual doing of stuff.
  44. Watching creative podcast, it’s time very well spent.
  45. Started having interest in food making process (Ahhh, awwww, kyun, kab and kaise).
  46. Having dinner with Daddy.
  47. Evening long talk with family (sort of chai-pe-charcha).
  48. Seeing daddy completing his tenure.
  49. Last year favourites updated successfully.
  50. Obsessed and addicted to my favourite.
  51. Thinking.

Way to 75 but couldn’t, it’s ok

Menaka Sangwan

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction and truly an imagination of the mind. Resemblance to any situation is a coincidence.

I asked, he delivered

Is he a delivery boy?

I dream, he strives to achieve

Is he an achiever?

I think about something, he does everything

Is he a doer?

I point at something, and he jumps right in

Is he a go-getter?

I am an anxious person, he calms me with his sweet voice

Is he my anchor?

I have an OCD, he set things right for me

Is he a meticulous?

I demand things, he delivers everything

Is he my delivery man?

I want to go outside, he drives me everywhere

Is he my chauffeur?

I see a rose, he grows me a garden

Is he my gardener?

I want him, he behaves as if I already have him

Is he my man?

He is none of the those things but tries to be everything just for me.

I think he is my one but he is my everything.

..

Menaka Sangwan

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